Do not pip install gdal, do not install GDAL inside a virtual-env. Instead, use Conda. These are my instructions on how to install GDAL using Conda on a Mac. Before we dive in, let me explain why I am ...

GDAL is a popular and powerful geospatial data processing library. GDAL is available as a set of commandline utilities (ready to use binaries files). The developer oriented library is available as a C ...

Installing gdal for python is quite the pain. The reason for this is that only the version that has its binaries installed by some other means can be used. As pip is not aware of this special ...